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War Of Shadows	By : TurtleNinja Category: +S through Z > Samurai Jack Views: 3353 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Mad Jack

Reappearing in Lord Aku's lair, I looked around, wondering why he'd asked me to meet in his private chamber instead of the audience hall. I decided it was better to find out than to keep him waiting, knowing full well what he did to those who kept him waiting and it was a fate worse than being sent to the Pit of Hate. Frankly, I would have rather taken the Pit over his idea of torture anyday.

Eventually I found my way to his bedchamber, finding his entire living area to be modeled after a feudal castle. I knelt before the heavy double sliding doors that led into the bedchamber, reaching up to knock. As I was about to alert him to my presense, I paused, listening closely. Someone else was already there.

Straining my ears to hear better, I realized that he was preoccupied with one of the ladies, hearing their loud moans and cries of pleasure through the doors. I debated on whether or not it was worth interrupting them or whether or not I should wait for them to finish and hope that Lord Aku would not be angry with me.

After a few seconds of debate, I decided to knock, hearing a brief pause in the noises inside before they began again. I knew that they had known I was there and this was apparently a sign for me to leave. I began to rise, intending on coming back later.

"Just where do you think you are going?"

I quickly dropped back to my knees and reached up for the door.

"My apologies, my lord. I thought you were wanting me to return at another time." I said.

"When I say you are to appear for your orders, you appear, regardless of what I may be doing, is that understood?"

"Yes. Clearly, my lord."

I slid the doorway open enough to be seen through, momentarily startled by the sight before me in the bedchamber. On her knees on the bed, completely naked, was Fuki, her long hair curtaining her pale features. Behind her, also naked, was Lord Aku in his Elemental form, hands on Fuki's hips as he repeatedly thrust into her, both of them completely ignoring me.

Not wishing to go through this briefing with such an eyefull, I lowered my gaze to a spot on the polished wooden floor a few inches from the edge of their futon. Getting an earfull of Fuki's loud screams of pleasure was bad enough, but in no way did I want to watch. Though, I had to admit, this certainly explained why the hell we hardly ever saw Fuki outside of group meetings.

"Lord Aku, Ekirei told me that you had orders for me concerning my original." I said.

Without breaking his rhythm or even looking at me, he addressed me.

"Yes. Jack Minamoto and the Wind Elemental, Chimitsu. As I told you shortly after your rebirth, Ekirei has failed twice to bring either of them to me. Now that mission lays in your hands."

"What do you want me to do, sir? Kill them? Subdue them? Kidnap them?"

"I want you to wear down and then terminate the Wind Elemental. Without her guidance, Minamoto will be unable to harness the full power of the Star of the Elements and he will easily fall to me. Do whatever you must to destroy her, but make certain she is eliminated!"

"Hai. I will not fail you. Demo..."

There was the briefest of pauses before he continued, Fuki making more than a few loud cries that I was certain would be heard down the hall from us.

"But what?"

"Last time, the samurai defeated me so easily, even though I was within moments of taking his head. If the magic that bound me to his emotions could not support me without them, then how was I brought back? I feel different this time around."

"Indeed. Without those emotions, my spell was broken and you faded from reality. But they could not keep you away once you had been created."

"What?"

"When my spell was broken and you faded from reality, all that was left of you was a dying memory and traces of your essense. Without a body, you would have disappeared completely, but I was able to sustain that fading memory and essense until you were needed."

"Ekirei's failures."

"Yes. I realized that the Dark Elemental Circle was incomplete and their powers fractioned. But we had no equivalent for Metal as we had the others. We only had a little bit of her essense in our possession, such a small amount that we could not bring about the Dark Metal Elemental with it. We needed more essense."

"I see. My essense."

"Indeed. Because of that, the magic used to bring you into existence does not solely rely on his emotions of anger and hatred this time. Ever since that day, he has kept his heart in check, trying to keep me from restoring you if it was at all possible. But it was not enough."

"But if there isn't a connection this time, then how could his emotions help restore me?"

"They didn't. The emotions only give you a connection to him, to feel what he feels and know how to manipulate them. In a prior battle with him, I managed to scratch him. With the blood that was left on my talons, combined with Metal's dying essense and your dying memory and essense, I was able to restore you. That is how you are able to exist in this world without solely relying on his emotions to keep you here."

"And the Elemental powers? We both know that Minamoto has no such power within his body or soul. He is but a mortal man with mortal emotions, limitations, and weaknesses. He can be manipulated, an Elemental is harder to deceive and manipulate. Surely there is an explanation as to his abilities to defeat us both."

"There is and that explanation lies within his heart and spirit and the sword that he possesses."

"And that is?"

"His spirit is of the utmost purity and with the Wind Elemental in his presense, it will be even more difficult to break and corrupt. That as why we need to separate them. As for the sword, it was forged by the Metal Elemental- who was the spirit of the female warrior- and infused with traces of my Elemental counterpart's power. If not for that, he would not be able to harm me."

"I see. My own Elemental counterpart had a hand in it, but that does not explain my abilities, only his."

"Ah, yes, well, your own Elemental powers are a from Minamoto's Elemental potentia, fused with the traces of power from Metal's dying essense, courtesy of Demongo."

Demongo. I knew that warped little demon. Reportedly, although Lord Aku refused to ever confirm this, the tricky little shit was his own demonic offspring. From what I remembered in the haze of my memories, his mother was a shapeshifting succubus by the name of Keisei, but whom she was, I hadn't a clue.

"So that is why I'm the spirit of the male warrior. Part of her essense is fused with Minamoto's hidden Elemental potential. That insane little demon had a use after all." I said.

"Indeed. Now go! I do not want to hear from you until you have destroyed the Elemental and broken the samurai!"

Fuki gave a few loud, short screams and I dared to glance up for the briefest of moments. She thrashed on her hands and knees on the bed in pleasure, her fingers tearing into the blankets wildly. Quickly, I lowered my eyes again and gave a bow of obedience before leaving, sliding the heavy wooden doors shut once more, drowning out their mutual cries of pleasure.

I stood and took a few steps before teleporting away back home, intending on planning what to do next. I had my orders and I knew that Lord Aku wouldn't want to see me until I had something good to report. Failure was far from being an option, which meant that I had better take my time with this or face another death and I wasn't about to die again.

I removed the leather jacket and hung it in the closet once I rematerialized, then headed towards the study to see what I had to work with. Inside was a vast office filled with books, papers, journals, all on mortal behavior, physiology, religion and superstitious beliefs, even mythology. It was everything I needed to use against my original and the Wind Elemental.

All I needed to do was find the right combination of those items in my arsenal to use against them and the entire mortal race. I stood before the vast shelves of books from throughout history, searching for something I could use against my original. Something I could use to break him and take down the Wind Elemental in the same gesture.

I knew Minamoto well since, after all, I was his exact double. I knew his weaknesses, I knew his strengths, I knew everything that he did about himself, his family, and his life. Because of the connection that remained between us, I was just shy of knowing everything he was thinking. The best I could do was tell what he felt and towards whom those emotions were directed.

Finally, I settled on a book, taking it from the shelf and sitting down with it at my desk. Every legend known to the mortal realm about Elementals had been contained in this book, though I knew that some of it was bound to be wrong at one point or another. Elementals stayed completely out of mortal knowledge, or tried to. Occasionally those like the Wind Elemental would dare to make themselves known briefly before returning to their secret lives once more.

But this book was intriguing. For the most part, it had it right. Five Elementals, a yin and yang Elemental pair of good and evil, but they made no mention of the Dark Elementals. Not once had we been mentioned. Granted, our elements had been spoken of, but never once had they been attributed to us or acknowledged that we existed in Elemental form. Mildly insulting, but that wasn't what I picked this book out for. If I wanted information on Elementals and their personalities, all I'd have to do was search my memories.

What I found the most interesting about this book was the fact that it mentioned the Star of the Elements. Not directly by name, but it did mention an amulet of great power combining the powers of the five Light Elementals, though it did not call them the Light Elementals, simply "The Elements", which meant Chimitsu and her sisters. I knew that mortals weren't supposed to know about the Star, much less what it was to be used for, which meant that this mortal author knew more than they were supposed to.

It even included a handful of illustrations, portraying the Star as a yin yang with the five Elemental symbols set evenly around its outer edge. Looking closer into the black and white points in each half, I noted that the symbol for infinity had been drawn there. The Star itself had neither a yin yang or infinity symbol on it anywhere, only a Star shaped amulet consisting of five pieces guarded by the five Light Elementals. Where it had gone now, we were not certain.

Our best guess was that it was in the hands of the Wind Elemental and if that was true, then it could easily be in my original's hands.

Turning the page, I was shocked to see the altar that I knew to be in the Water Elemental's castle, the one used when the Star was in its complete form and could, if the holder of the mystical amulet wished it, summon the Light Elemental. She was known through out the world commonly as the Great Mother and for even an Elemental to see her was a high honor. No mortal alive was ever meant to know about that altar, much less ever see it long enough to make an illustration of it.

Someone had to have made their way to Asagi's temple long ago before humanity became so technologically involved to forget their Elemental roots. Mortals only climbed mountains near her temple now as a matter of who was the strongest, not to see what was there or seek out spiritual guidance. As it was, few mortals believed in such things these days.

It troubled me that this mortal author knew not only of the Star and its power, but the summoning altar and its supposed location. Mortals generally considered it mythological, just like Atlantis, but this was one mortal that had found out differently somehow. Asagi herself must have trusted him completely in order to let this knowledge leak out. Now the book rested in my hands and with it, its wealth of knowledge about the Star's power.

If I could get my hands on the mystical amulet, get it away from the Wind Elemental and my original, then they would be easy pickings for Lord Aku. The trouble was, where were they and how could I get the Star from them if they even had it? I frowned, realizing that this book didn't help me after all, only gave me something I could use if I could get it and it was a big if.

I set it aside and leaned back, thinking. There had to be something that I could use to my advantage concerning my original and his companion. Minamoto was the chivalrous type, so if I could get my hands on the lady, he'd be bound by his samurai honor to go after her. He was much too dangerous for me to want to go after him alone, much less with the Wind Elemental to deal with on top of it.

No, Lord Aku was right. Without the Wind Elemental's guidance, Minamoto would be lost and even if he held the Star of the Elements in his possession, it was unlikely that he would know how to use it. I could go after him, but it was much easier to go after the girl. That is, unless they were separated, then it would be easy to take care of them both at the same time, but it was unlikely. Minamoto would never allow her to leave his sight, especially if he knew that she was the last of the Light Elementals.

I smiled slowly, a plot beginning to form in my mind to separate them and take the girl to use as bait. The Wind Elemental was the spirit of the compassionate healer and bound by her own Elemental vows to help those who needed her whenever she was in the mortal realm. In her own castle in solitude, she was bound by no such thing, but she couldn't go back there and was trapped in the mortal world. All I had to do was create a situation where she would be forced away from my original and I could take her away from him, leaving him to come for her.

"You look like the lion who just found a juicy kill all to himself." a voice rang out.

I opened my eyes and slowly straightened in my chair, looking off into the shadows near the door. Ekirei stepped from them a moment later, her heels clicking against the marble floor as she approached my desk. I was not at all happy to see her.

"Ekirei. Are you that bored that you can't find anything better to do than come by and harass me?" I asked.

"Well, actually, I have business to take care of, but you know I'm not so busy that I can't visit with you at all."

"You poor thing. Lord Aku must really have lost faith in you if he has given you so little to do that you have time to come all this way to interrupt my work."

She seemed unruffled by my sarcasm as she walked around my desk and settled herself directly in my lap, giving me a tantalizing view of a pair of very suggestive thong panties. Her slim hands massaged my chest through my shirt as she pressed close to me, ignoring my impassive expression.

"Do you have a reason for being here, Eki?" I asked, growing tired of her interruptions.

"Weeeeellll...I was assigned to help you with this. After all, I did face them twice already."

"And you failed miserably both times. What sort of help are you supposed to be to me?"

"I know the Wind Elemental."

"Uh-huh. I already have a plan, Eki, thank you very much."

"Oh, do you now? This I gotta hear."

"I get her away from my original, then I can bring her to Lord Aku for him to do whatever he wishes with her and I can deal with my original. Without her, he's nothing, not even with the Star of the Elements in his hands."

"Unless she's already told him how to use it."

"Doubtful. No mortal's meant to know about it, much less its power or how to use it, so I don't think she's gonna tell him unless she sees a very good reason to. So far, we haven't given her such a reason, therefore, we need not worry about the samurai knowing how to use it."

"Hnf. You'd better be right or Lord Aku's going to be quite harsh with you."

"I have no intention of failing this time around, Eki. Besides, you have no idea how close I was to bringing him down last time. The only reason I failed was because the magic that created my solid form was bound to him by his emotions and without those emotions, I couldn't stay solid. Now that I'm not bound by his pitiful mortal emotions, I can move more freely and have a chance at bringing him to his knees."

"In other words, you're gonna make him suffer this time around."

"And I'm going to enjoy every fucking minute of it."

She grinned wickedly, bouncing a bit in my lap in excitement, not caring about what sort of effect it was having on me at the moment.

"Oooh...can I watch?"

"If it gets you off my lap and out of my hair for the rest of the day while I plan, then yes."

She paused for a moment, giving this some thought before rubbing up against me, her eyes showing just how delighted she was at the idea. Yours truly, on the other hand, was less excited of the idea of her tagging along on this mission. I could think of a million people I'd rather have watching me work than her.

Finally, she slid from my lap, standing, her skirt dropping back into place once she had. I smirked a bit, watching her smooth out her top and adjust it over her large chest.

"You've got yourself a deal, J-chan." she said with a grin.

"All right, now will you please leave so I can get some work done?"

She eyed me up a bit before grinning.

"Fine, but I'd suggest taking care of that package first." she said, reaching down to give my crotch a good squeeze.

I jumped slightly and growled, swatting her arm away as roughly as I could in my uncomfortable position. She laughed and headed out of my study, leaving me to my work. No doubt I would have to repay the bitch later for leaving me there with a rather painful erection. Sooner or later, she was going to have to learn that teasing me like that was one dangerous game that was going to catch up with her soon enough.

But first....I had work to do.
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